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Observations of luminous quasars at $z\gtrsim7$ reveal supermassive black holes (SMBHs) with inferred masses $M_{\rm BH}\sim10^9 \, M_\odot$ formed within the first $\sim700$~Myr of cosmic history. Standard growth channels \textrm{ -- }…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-21 Chian-Shu Chen , Feng-Li Lin

If primordial black holes (PBHs) seeded the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the centers of high-redshift quasars, then the gas surrounding these black holes may reveal nucleosynthetic clues to their primordial origins. We present…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-19 Phoebe Upton Sanderbeck , Simeon Bird , Zoltan Haiman

We show that a subdominant component of dissipative dark matter resembling the Standard Model can form many intermediate-mass black hole seeds during the first structure formation epoch. We also observe that, in the presence of this matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-25 Guido D'Amico , Paolo Panci , Alessandro Lupi , Stefano Bovino , Joseph Silk

Tracking the evolution of high redshift seed black hole masses to late times, we examine the observable signatures today. These massive initial black hole seeds form at extremely high redshifts from the direct collapse of pre-galactic gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-27 Priyamvada Natarajan

First, we verify that the physical parameters estimated for the four directly detected gravitational wave (GW) events involving coalescence of binary black holes (BHs) indeed uphold the second law of BH thermodynamics, strengthening further…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-08 Patrick Das Gupta , Fazlu Rahman

We present predictions for the high-redshift halo-galaxy-supermassive black hole (SMBH) connection from the TRINITY model. Constrained by a comprehensive compilation of galaxy ($0\leq z \leq 10$) and SMBH datasets ($0\leq z \leq 6.5$),…

Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) are among the most powerful known sources of gravitational waves (GWs). Accordingly, these systems could dominate GW emission in the micro- and millihertz frequency range. Within this domain, SMBHs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-08 Matthias Daniel , Kris Pardo , Laura Sagunski

The most massive black holes observed in the Universe weigh up to $\sim 10^{10} \, \mathrm{M_{\odot}}$, nearly independent of redshift. Reaching these final masses likely required copious accretion and several major mergers. Employing a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-17 Fabio Pacucci , Priyamvada Natarajan , Andrea Ferrara

The supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are ubiquitous in the center of galaxies, although the origin of their massive seeds is still unknown. In this paper, we investigate the SMBHs formation from the QCD axion bubbles. In this case, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-03 Hai-Jun Li , Ying-Quan Peng , Wei Chao , Yu-Feng Zhou

We analyze the effect of dissipation on the orbital evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) using high-resolution self-consistent gasdynamical simulations of binary equal- and unequal-mass mergers of disk galaxies. The galaxy models…

The observation of quasars at very high redshift such as Poniuaena is a challenge for models of super-massive black hole (SMBH) formation. This work presents a study of SMBH formation via known physical processes in star-burst clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-18 Pavel Kroupa , Ladislav Subr , Tereza Jerabkova , Long Wang

Based on the previously formulated theory of spherical perturbations in the cosmological medium of self-gravitating scalarly charged fermions with the Higgs scalar interaction and the similarity properties of such models, the formation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-11 Yu. G. Ignat'ev

The presence of supermassive black holes at redshift z > 6 raises some questions about their formation and growth in the early universe. Due to the construction of new telescopes like the ELT to observe and detect SMBHs, it will be useful…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 M. Liempi , L. Almonacid , D. R. G. Schleicher , A. Escala

We combine the semi-analytical structure formation model, SASHIMI, which predicts subhalo populations in collisionless, cold dark matter (CDM), with a parametric model that maps CDM halos to self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-28 Shin'ichiro Ando , Shunichi Horigome , Ethan O. Nadler , Daneng Yang , Hai-Bo Yu

We study the formation and evolution of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos. We find analytical, fully cosmological similarity solutions taking account of the collisional interaction of SIDM particles. This interaction results in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Kyungjin Ahn , Paul R. Shapiro

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are tightly correlated with their hosts but the origin of such connection remains elusive. To explore the cosmic build-up of this scaling relation, we present an empirically-motivated model that tracks…

Direct collapse black holes (DCBH) have been proposed as a solution to the challenge of assembling supermassive black holes by $z>6$ to explain the bright quasars observed at this epoch. The formation of a DCBH seed with $\rm…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-28 Bhaskar Agarwal , Britton Smith , Simon Glover , Priyamvada Natarajan , Sadegh Khochfar

We study the merger rate of primordial black holes (PBHs) in self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halo models. To explore a numerical description for the density profile of SIDM halo models, we use the result of a previously performed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-26 Saeed Fakhry , Mahdi Naseri , Javad T. Firouzjaee , Mehrdad Farhoudi

We study the formation and evolution of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos. We find analytical, fully cosmological similarity solutions for their dynamics, which take proper account of the collisional interaction of SIDM particles,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kyungjin Ahn , Paul R. Shapiro

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at redshifts of $z\gtrsim 4-7$, many of which host accreting massive black holes (BHs) with BH-to-galaxy mass ($M_{\rm BH}/M_{\star}$) ratios…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-07 Haojie Hu , Kohei Inayoshi , Zoltan Haiman , Luis C. Ho , Ken Ohsuga